Thursday, January 5, 2012

Into the DeLorean

Oops AJC! The Peachtree Plaza is under construction in the left photo which means this was 1975 and not 1980.

In 1989 I found a pair of now/then photos in the Atlanta Journal Constitution that blew my mind. Two pictures taken from the same spot that drove home a powerful point - in less than a decade my hometown had become nearly unrecognizable. How soon would it be until I became a stranger in my own hometown? (Yeah, I know that's an Elvis song.) How weird to be so young and feel so old. I cut out the newspaper blurb, stuffed it away in a desk drawer and thought it would be interesting to take photos around town of scenes that were certain to vanish in the near future. "In 2 decades I'll come back and take a second shot from the exact same perspective." Many of the photos I took during that time can be seen over at Flickr. 23 years later I'm finally returning to some of those same spots and catching the ball I tossed into the air at age 21, always with the odd sensation that I may run into my younger self or Christopher Lloyd along the way. I'll be posting the photos and meanderings here. Into the DeLorean and away we go...